Will Smith, Joel Edgerton to star in police drama ‘Bright’ for director David Ayer

Will Smith will be working with Suicide Squad director David Ayer again soon on Bright, a police thriller written by Max Landis and co-starring Joel Edgerton.

Joel Edgerton; Credit: INFphoto.com

At this point, the project is a spec package, so all four men are attached as a package and it now has to find a studio. According to Deadline, which first reported on the project, the package is expected to be a big sale and has Eric Newman, Bryan Unkeless and Landis producing.

Landis, who wrote Chronicle and American Ultra, has been tweeting about Bright. He revealed that he wrote a dedication to Ayer on the script’s title page and he then picked it to direct.

Deadline got it wrong. I wrote the script alone, dedicated it to David on the cover, and he decided to direct. https://t.co/H6j5T57XR4